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MS has established business relationships with large corps to a much greater degree than Amazon. They're already entrenched as nobody's moving away from Windows desktops or Office anytime soon, so the upsell to cloud for them is trivial.
Basically we are using Microsoft for out of the box services and AWS for anything else.
I would assume it’s due to a lot of the banks running windows and having large AD rollouts means it’s a bit of a gateway to the rest of their cloud services. You have to use Azure ADFS for things like office 365/teams, so would make sense for people to keep all their eggs in one basket.
I think this article is comparing apple and pears to some extend. My company is solely cloud based and are using Azure, AWS and GCP, although 98% of our bespoke infrastructure runs on AWS. We could migrate this infrastructure to GCP, as Google has been catching up with AWS on cloud infrastructure, however, I would dread to migrate it all to Azure. We mostly use Azure for Azure AD (and Office 365), and AWS to build ou…
Is this because of AD and Office integrations?
I think this article is comparing apple and pears to some extend. My company is solely cloud based and are using Azure, AWS and GCP, although 98% of our bespoke infrastructure runs on AWS. We could migrate this infrastructure to GCP, as Google has been catching up with AWS on cloud infrastructure, however, I would dread to migrate it all to Azure. We mostly use Azure for Azure AD (and Office 365), and AWS to build ou…
As an engineer working on Azure, why would you be opposed to migrating everything to Azure specifically?
I am currently getting into GPU cloud computing, and tried various options. My Azure experience was terrible, I could not even spin up a VM, I would get some exception message (in the Dashboard). Pretty much continues my Windows experience from about 16 years ago when I abandoned it for the Mac.
I'd love to hear what mac-based GPU cloud computing system you are using.
Apple badly needs a cloud compute system. If you ever need to do a lot of iOS/Xcode builds (say, a build server for mobile apps at a large company) you'll find that it's just about impossible to get a good, scalable system from Apple.
Apple don't allow VMs (not in a scalable way anyway) so every instance needs to run on its own Apple hardware. This led to us having to buy huge numbers of "trashcan" macs to do our builds - they didn't even have a good rackmount solution for high end mac-based servers.
They already use Microsoft stacks internally so Azure was a natural extension.
The combination of C#, Visual Studio and Azure Functions to create serverless cloud systems (together with Azure SQL Server, Azure Redis, Azure IoT and more) is mind blowingly, unreasonably effective. Azure Data Studio is also a pleasure to work with and such a fresh take in terms of UX.
I simply enjoy every minute of working in that environment with those tools. I don’t have experience with GCP or AWS, but I can’t see how they provide something that debuggable and intuitive without the Visual Studio core.
Another benefit - perhaps wholly psychological and imagined - is that I know Microsoft understands and lives on enterprise customers. Azure is not a side business like AWS (to e-commerce) or GCP (to advertising) is.
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As an engineer working on Azure, why would you be opposed to migrating everything to Azure specifically?
Not OP, but in a similar boat. Basically, having everything in one cloud provider's hardware is a risk to uptime guarantees is the biggest reason. There are other, less good reasons too, but that is the one that can't be changed by adding features to Azure (or any other).